Riverbend: The War on Terror... (A year later in Baghdad)

[qanda]

I've heard from a lot of pundits about how Iraq is better off now than before the war and I think it's good to get the perspective of someone who is actually living through it. If you can, read the entire entry, I am including the part that I thought was most telling.

Baghdad Burning
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
March 20, 2004

(snip)

And where are we now? Well, our governmental facilities have been burned to the ground by a combination of 'liberators' and 'Free Iraqi Fighters'; 50% of the working population is jobless and hungry; summer is looming close and our electrical situation is a joke; the streets are dirty and overflowing with sewage; our jails are fuller than ever with thousands of innocent people; we've seen more explosions, tanks, fighter planes and troops in the last year than almost a decade of war with Iran brought; our homes are being raided and our cars are stopped in the streets for inspections… journalists are being killed 'accidentally' and the seeds of a civil war are being sown by those who find it most useful; the hospitals overflow with patients but are short on just about everything else- medical supplies, medicine and doctors; and all the while, the oil is flowing.

But we've learned a lot. We've learned that terrorism isn't actually the act of creating terror. It isn't the act of killing innocent people and frightening others… no, you see, that's called a 'liberation'. It doesn't matter what you burn or who you kill- if you wear khaki, ride a tank or Apache or fighter plane and drop missiles and bombs, then you're not a terrorist- you're a liberator.

The war on terror is a joke… Madrid was proof of that last week… Iraq is proof of that everyday.

I hope someone feels safer, because we certainly don't.

[radwriter0555]

1. kick...

she is brilliant.

[izzie]

2. She must be very well educated.

One English site I read felt she could not be real but I think she is. Her talk on children is so real. She also does things like real people do. She feels like a real person to me and I pull it up every day hoping she has had time to post.